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Marcus S. Bilik

5×5 · top 1.0% of 41,402 all-time · competing since May 2019 · 2019BILI02

Marcus S. Bilik has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 5×5: a personal-best single of 46.88, set at Gouverneur NxNoPeeking 2025, puts him in the top 1.0% of the 41,402 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 90th in the United States. Until March 2016, no official 5×5 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 24 competitions since May 2019, he has put 945 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 63% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.93 in May 2019 to 7.31, a 26% improvement. Marcus has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

5×5
best event — top 1.0% of 41,402 all-time
46.88
signature single · Gouverneur NxNoPeeking 2025
945
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
5×546.8853.17
top 1.0%90 / 9,537
2×21.352.94
top 1.6%636 / 41,674
4×427.5333.03
top 1.6%274 / 19,354
3×37.318.65
top 1.7%1,057 / 60,666
6×61:30.571:39.82
top 2.1%82 / 4,262
7×72:23.122:31.83
top 2.7%76 / 3,236
Megaminx44.4648.84
top 2.9%206 / 8,026
3×3 one-handed12.0314.81
top 3.0%482 / 15,900
Pyraminx3.635.93
top 6.0%1,562 / 29,168
Square-115.3217.76
top 17.2%1,174 / 6,846
Skewb5.238.25
top 20.0%3,213 / 19,164
Clock28.48—
early days — 1 solve7,510 / 9,172

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Brooklyn 2019: 9.93Hudson Valley Summer 2019: 14.17Brooklyn Fall 2019: 12.65Empire State Winter B 2022: 9.15New York Championship 2022: 8.02Cubers Flood Watertown 2022: 7.98Slow N Steady Fall 2022: 9.02Pioneer Valley Cubing B 2023: 7.69Pretzel Mania 2023: 7.32ROC the Cube 2023: 8.50CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 8.48Puzzles in Pottsville 2024: 8.31Binghamton Cube Day 2025: 8.53ROC the Cube NY 2025: 8.67Saratoga Springs Summer 2025: 7.67Brookhaven Summer 2025: 8.11Gouverneur NxNoPeeking 2025: 7.92New York Championship 2025: 8.41Elmira Miracle 2025: 9.19Two Buffalo Cube Days 2026: 7.54Liberty Science Center Open A 2026: 7.31Empire State ALL11-Stars 2026: 8.07Montauk 2026: 7.767.3114.1725 May 201919 Sep 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.

Next targets

  • A sub-40 5×5 single — 73 people have one; it is 6.88 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.35 away.

Targets move as he improves.